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They left great marks on me : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I /

"Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Kidada E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation
  • "A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation
  • "Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell
  • "If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities
  • "It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching
  • Crusade
  • Epilogue : closer to the promised land.